NEW YORK (AP) - A rabbi has sued the
American Jewish Committee to block construction of part of a
Holocaust memorial at the site of a Polish death
camp.

David Irving
comments:

NOW why would any learned person
seek to prevent a 600 foot trench being dug across
the site of a former Nazi camp? This is what
archeologists routinely do when they seek to
unravel the mysteries of the past. Of course, wise people have done their
damndest to prevent any proper archeological
surveys of the more mystery-shrouded Nazi death
sites. Cynics would say that their purpose is to
prevent Real History from replacing or at least
downsizing the Myth. We are sure this consideration can not
be what underlies this Rabbi's belated concerns. Perish the thought.

Rabbi Avi Weiss, who
says he lost at least seven
relatives at the camp known as Belzec, said in court papers
filed Monday that digging a 600-foot-long memorial trench
through the site desecrates what is essentially a graveyard.
Nearly all of the 500,000 people killed at Belzec were
gassed and buried in mass graves, Weiss' court papers say.
In 1943, the Nazis, to hide evidence of the mass murders,
disinterred the bodies, burned them, crushed the bones with
a machine and scattered the ashes over the site, the papers
say.

"The soil of the camp is suffused with human bone shards
and ash, and construction of the trench will involve
displacing, disturbing and disinterring the remains of those
who were murdered at Belzec," says the complaint filed in
Manhattan's state Supreme Court.

American Jewish Committee
spokesman Ken Bandler said planning for the Belzec
memorial began in 1994, and questioned why Weiss had not
shown interest earlier.

The AJC, a Jewish cultural and
civil rights organization, is serving as
international partner with the Polish government to build
the memorial at Belzec, about 100 miles southeast of Warsaw.
The organization describes the 11.5-foot-wide,
cobblestone-paved trench as a walkway meant to evoke the
history of the grounds.

Weiss claims the state court has jurisdiction because the
AJC's main offices are in New York. He says he has standing
in the lawsuit because his relatives were killed at
Belzec.

AJC President David Harris called the lawsuit
"frivolous" and "without any merit." He said AJC's plans for
the memorial had received almost universal support from
Holocaust survivors and their families and from rabbinical
authorities.